This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other me... more This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.
Parcours de recherche biblioteca d'arte Ce livre se penche sur la manière dont les cinq sens sont... more Parcours de recherche biblioteca d'arte Ce livre se penche sur la manière dont les cinq sens sont valorisés et utilisés dans les rituels religieux, qu'ils soient publics ou privés, des religions autour de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale, avec une insistance sur les polythéismes, les christianismes orientaux et occidentaux et l'Islam médiéval. Nous avons cherché à faire apparaître quels étaient les usages communs ou, au contraire, les spéci cités de chaque culture religieuse, en portant notre attention sur les sollicitations plurielles des sens lors des dévotions et des rituels, dans les modes d'appréhension du divin, qu'il s'agisse de participer aux cérémonies ou d' entrer en relation avec les espaces sacrés par le visuel, l'auditif, l' olfactif, le toucher, le goût ou l' ensemble des sens combinés. En créant ainsi une mémoire sensorielle de la relation au divin et aux espaces sacrés, les sens engagent le corps dans les pratiques rituelles. Ce livre a une démarche interdisciplinaire en faisant dialoguer des historiens de l'art, des philologues, des musicologues et des historiens des sociétés antiques et médiévales.
Imnografia liturgică bizantinăPerspective critice, Alexandru Ioniță (ed.), 2019
Cuvânt înainte (Constantin Oancea) 7 Imnografia Ortodoxă și anti-iudaismul Michael Azar Matrice p... more Cuvânt înainte (Constantin Oancea) 7 Imnografia Ortodoxă și anti-iudaismul Michael Azar Matrice profetică şi paradox teologic: iudei şi iudaism în Săptămâna Mare şi în ritualurile pascale din Biserica Ortodoxă 11 Ioannis Mourtzios Fenomenul antisemitismului și Biserica Ortodoxă. Textele liturgice ale Săptămânii Patimilor 39 Bogdan G. Bucur Retorica anti-iudaică din imnografia bizantină: Contextualizare exegetică și teologică 52 Maica Éliane Poirot o.c.d. Permanenţa legământului şi textele liturgice bizantine 78 Alexandru Ioniţă Vin vechi în burdufuri noi: Romani 9-11 ca sursă de inspirație pentru noi creații imnografice 95 Biblie și Liturghie Derek Krueger Biblia penitenţială şi Canonul cel Mare al lui Andrei Criteanul 123 7
This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other me... more This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.
Parcours de recherche biblioteca d'arte Ce livre se penche sur la manière dont les cinq sens sont... more Parcours de recherche biblioteca d'arte Ce livre se penche sur la manière dont les cinq sens sont valorisés et utilisés dans les rituels religieux, qu'ils soient publics ou privés, des religions autour de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale, avec une insistance sur les polythéismes, les christianismes orientaux et occidentaux et l'Islam médiéval. Nous avons cherché à faire apparaître quels étaient les usages communs ou, au contraire, les spéci cités de chaque culture religieuse, en portant notre attention sur les sollicitations plurielles des sens lors des dévotions et des rituels, dans les modes d'appréhension du divin, qu'il s'agisse de participer aux cérémonies ou d' entrer en relation avec les espaces sacrés par le visuel, l'auditif, l' olfactif, le toucher, le goût ou l' ensemble des sens combinés. En créant ainsi une mémoire sensorielle de la relation au divin et aux espaces sacrés, les sens engagent le corps dans les pratiques rituelles. Ce livre a une démarche interdisciplinaire en faisant dialoguer des historiens de l'art, des philologues, des musicologues et des historiens des sociétés antiques et médiévales.
Imnografia liturgică bizantinăPerspective critice, Alexandru Ioniță (ed.), 2019
Cuvânt înainte (Constantin Oancea) 7 Imnografia Ortodoxă și anti-iudaismul Michael Azar Matrice p... more Cuvânt înainte (Constantin Oancea) 7 Imnografia Ortodoxă și anti-iudaismul Michael Azar Matrice profetică şi paradox teologic: iudei şi iudaism în Săptămâna Mare şi în ritualurile pascale din Biserica Ortodoxă 11 Ioannis Mourtzios Fenomenul antisemitismului și Biserica Ortodoxă. Textele liturgice ale Săptămânii Patimilor 39 Bogdan G. Bucur Retorica anti-iudaică din imnografia bizantină: Contextualizare exegetică și teologică 52 Maica Éliane Poirot o.c.d. Permanenţa legământului şi textele liturgice bizantine 78 Alexandru Ioniţă Vin vechi în burdufuri noi: Romani 9-11 ca sursă de inspirație pentru noi creații imnografice 95 Biblie și Liturghie Derek Krueger Biblia penitenţială şi Canonul cel Mare al lui Andrei Criteanul 123 7
Byzantine practices of establishing and celebrating fictive kinship bonds through a ritual called... more Byzantine practices of establishing and celebrating fictive kinship bonds through a ritual called adelphopoiesis or "brother-making" have inspired a great deal of interest for more than two decades. Claudia Rapp has spent much of that time assembling a remarkable dossier of literary, documentary, and material evidence. She has conducted pioneering philological and detective work on the wide variety of blessings for these rites contained in Byzantine euchologia, or prayer books. She has assimilated the relevant studies of the sources with the goal of a broad synthesis. Her volume presents her results with admirable clarity and prudence. She has pondered this material long and wisely enough to see both the general patterns in the evidence and to be honest about the disjunctures. The result is a masterful and cautious contribution to Byzantine social, cultural, and religious history. Rapp offers her study, in part, as a corrective to John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe (New York: Villard, 1994), and in this respect she provides a compassionate and necessary intervention (see esp. 41-43, 72-75). Some of this argument expands her fine 1997 essay for Traditio, but much leads in new directions. Given the persistent and mistaken notion in the popular press that in the middle ages Orthodox Christian clergy performed same-sex marriages, professional historians must hope that Rapp's nuanced work gets wider exposure. That said, much of Rapp's book contributes directly to queer history, as she addresses affective bonds between (mostly) men, including lifelong commitments of mutual support, arrangements for cohabitation, and vows to bury one's companion upon his death. She attends to the rhetoric that idealizes such relationships, especially in monastic literature. Rapp is not herself explicit about the ways in which the rise of queer theory has reshaped scholars' question about same-sex relations in the past, but it is this conversation above all that I hope will assimilate her conclusions. She also places brother-making within a variety of social settings where its meaning and function vary significantly. By the end of the book, it becomes clear that brother-making was not in fact one thing, but a range of practices, not necessarily closely related. The book's argument and organization proposes that brother-making emerged among Christian monastics in late antiquity as some monks desired to solemnize their commitments to remain together and share their asceticism. These practices generated prayer formulas now extant in Byzantine prayer books dating from the late-eighth century onward. From the seventh century this practice was adapted to bond monks with lay people-upon which the hierarchy generally frowned-and to join pairs of lay people at all levels of society, including members of the aristocracy and the imperial household. The chapters take up the elements of this narrative in turn, although Rapp admits that some of the links are not entirely certain.
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